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No ships entered the Strait of Hormuz on July 23.<br \/>The U.S. military said late on Thursday that it had completed a 13th consecutive night of strikes on Iran.<br \/>Meanwhile, at the Bab el-Mandeb strait, commodity tanker crossings totalled 32 on July 23, up from 26 the day before, Kpler data showed.<br \/>Of those crossings, 14 tankers were going into the Red Sea and 18 were exiting the strait into the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz fell to just one on Thursday, the lowest level since May 7, according to shiptracking data, amid ongoing shipping risks in the Middle East and as oil prices surged back to $100 a barrel.Only one tanker crossed the Strait of Hormuz on July 23, compared with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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